Southeastern Australia is witnessing an unusual spectacle as millions of spiders engage in mass ballooning to escape flooded ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - The thick strands of web visible in the sky are from spiders. There have been more of them recently because spider activity increases at this time of year. Matt McKernan ...

Plus, they don't technically "fly" in the avian sense. "Joro spiders utilize a technique known as ballooning, where they release silk threads into the air, allowing them to be carried by the wind ...

Spiders don’t have wings ... They take to the skies in a process called ballooning, in which they position their bodies to catch air, spinning out silk that uses wind—and the electric field ...

Every so often a spider attaches a thread of silk to something, like an anchor, so that if it falls, it won't fall too far and can drag itself back up to the previous position. Ballooning is another ...